Charles Galloway (jazz musician)
Charles "Sweet Lovin 'Charlie" Galloway (* around 1860, † 1916 ) was an American musician ( guitar ) and band leader of early jazz .
Galloway, who is said to have been born at the time of the Civil War and was disabled due to polio , ran a barber shop on South Rampart Street in the uptown of New Orleans . The store developed into an informal booking agency for musicians. Galloway also led a string band that included Jefferson Mumford (guitar), Bob Lyons and Albert Glenny (bass) and Tom Adams and Dee Dee Brooks (violin).
Galloway played in 1885 in a duo with Jefferson Mumford, who later was a member of Buddy Bolden's band . Galloway was also a member of a street band (including with Bob Lyons) that played an early preform of skifflemusic . In 1894 he led a dance orchestra in which Willie "Red" Warner (clarinet), who would later also play with Buddy Bolden, also Bob Lyons (bass), Edward Clem (cornet), Tom Landry (valve trombone) and "Barnet" (drums ) played. The orchestra performed at Masonic Hall on Perdido Street . In later years, according to Kid Ory , Galloway is said to have led a brass band at Club La Place .
According to jazz historians Al Rose and Edmond Souchon ( New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album , 1967) Galloway's orchestra was “the first organized jazz band, although they did not definitely recognize themselves as the first jazz band, for the reason that the evolution of jazz was very gradual and cannot be attributed to a single person or group. "
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Daniel Hardie: Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style . San Jose, [Calif.]: Writers Club Press, 2002, pp. 28 ff. ISBN 0595218768
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galloway, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Galloway, Charlie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1860 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1916 |